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'Every bit of this process has to change. Where is Mayor Karen Bass and our City Council in this?,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'Plants and people share the Southern California environment, assisting each other as part of an interdependent system,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'Years ago, while I was new to America, I watched some of Ross' TV shows with wonder because his simple techniques would yield such great results. It inspired so many would-be painters unsure of their own talents,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Intuit will retain its name on Intuit Dome for Olympic basketball competitions as part of a sponsorship deal with the organizers of the 2028 L.A. Olympics.

In response to columnist Jonah Goldberg proposing the Constitution be amended to get rid of a president's power to pardon, an L.A. Times reader writes, 'But presidents no longer take the Constitution seriously.'

We had been married for a year when my husband suggested moving to the West Coast. L.A. was never a place in which I imagined myself thriving.

'From the Mexican-American War of 1846-48 ... to recent attacks on Venezuelan boats and the talk about sending troops to Mexico to fight the drug cartels, there is nothing but the arrogance of power and the disregard for other countries' independence ...

A passport can inform which government recognizes us on paper. But it doesn't tell us what holds the nation together, what binds disparate strangers into a people.

Charli Kaaya, sister of former University of Miami quarterback Brad Kaaya, helps Calabasas win Division 2 girls' tennis title.

Lincoln Riley and USC are seeing what happens when a football program keeps and develops talent recruited out of high school rather than over-rely on the transfer portal.